Now, I’d never be so bold as to consider myself generally good at games. What I am is stubborn enough to attempt the same challenge over and over until I scrape through. Usually.
Powered by sheer determination, I was the first among my friends at school to beat Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy 7. I was also the first to win the deviously difficult race against Beemer in forgotten PS1 release Speed Freaks, an excellent kart racer.
No other teenage gamer I ever knew unlocked that character. Nor did they conquer 1991 brawler Battletoads. Gentle reader, I cannot tell a lie: Neither did I.
There have always been games marked by their difficulty, even defined by it. The original Crash Bandicoot, for instance (you deserved a glorious victory dance at the end of that one), or the great bag of malevolent evil that is FromSoftware’s entire output to date. Battletoads, somehow, has achieved notoriety even beyond that. The hardest Soulsborne bosses have nothing on this one.
It’s not that it’s a long game. How Long To Beat suggests a completion time of 3 and a half hours for the Sega Genesis version, if you’re only looking to complete the...
